Birthing can be empowering, joyous, sexual, profound and sacred; and with the right support women can experience birth as the greatest rite of passage in their lives; relying on the strength that is within themselves. The journey to motherhood will challenge a woman, and her family, physically, emotionally and spiritually; each aspect needing time to be explored for her to be as ready as possible for the final part of the journey- the birth itself. Every woman's preparation is unique and she has to find her own way to birth her baby - this is an essential part of her pregnancy.